 [Washington Examiner] Former Attorney General Eric Holder, a confidante of former President Barack Obama and a figure of scorn among congressional Republicans, will not run for president in 2020.
Holder said in a Washington Post op-ed Monday morning that he will instead continue his work, with Obama, on an anti-gerrymandering effort aimed at making districts for the House more competitive, ahead of fast-approaching post-2020 rounds of political line-drawing.
Holder would have faced a crowded field in the Democratic scrum, including a swath of high-profile senators, governors, former Cabinet officials, and others ‐ a fact Holder tacitly acknowledged in his op-ed.
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